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Set up cloud environments quickly for ad hoc development, testing and productivity for your IT and business users. Reduce the risks and costs of maintaining your data lake by implementing comprehensive data governance, including end-to-end data lineage, for business users. Improve cost savings by delivering clean, consistent and timely information for your data lakes, data warehouses or big data projects, while consolidating applications and retiring outdated databases. Take advantage of automatic schema propagation to speed up job generation, type-ahead search, and backwards capability, while designing once and executing anywhere. Create data integration flows and enforce data governance and quality rules with a cognitive design that recognizes and suggests usage patterns. Improve visibility and information governance by enabling complete, authoritative views of information with proof of lineage and quality.

IBM InfoSphere® Information Governance Catalog is a web-based tool that allows you to explore, understand and analyze information. You can create, manage and share a common business language, document and enact policies and rules, and track data lineage. Combine with IBM Watson® Knowledge Catalog to leverage existing curated data sets and extend your on-premises Information Governance Catalog investment to the cloud. A knowledge catalog allows you to put collected metadata into the hands of knowledge workers so data science and analytics communities can get easy access to the best assets for their purpose while still adhering to enterprise governance requirements. Provides a common business language and vocabulary to enable a deeper understanding of all your data assets, structured, semi-structured and unstructured. Documents governance policies and enacts rules to help you define how information should be structured, stored, transformed and moved.